Älmhult Municipality

Älmhult Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Älmhults kommun


county=Kronoberg County
province=Småland
capital=Älmhult


arearank=119th
area=983.28
arealand=895.36
populationrank=144th
population=15,368
densityrank=187th
populationdensity=17.2
website=http://www.almhult.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Älmhult Municipality ("Älmhults kommun") is a municipality in central Kronoberg County in southern Sweden, where the town of Älmhult is seat.

In 1901 Älmhult was detached from "Stenbrohult" and made a market town ("köping"). The present municipality was created by the local government reform of 1971, when Älmhult was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities.

Of historical significance is that the world renowned botanist Carl von Linné was born and grew up in the parish of Stenbrohult in the early 18th century. Today, the estate where he was born and lived his first months has been turned into a museum at Råshult, still surrounded by the same meadows and fields it was 300 years ago.

Allegedly, the area has a variety of different specimens of plants, likely to trigger the interest of a botanical minded youngster. The geography is probably not distinguished from its neighbouring municipalities however. Like all Småland municipalities they contain a variety of lakes, streams and above all forests.

The first IKEA store was opened in Älmhult, by Ingvar Kamprad. Ingvar grew up in the municipality, in Agunnaryd.

Localities

There are 5 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Älmhult Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Notable natives

*Carolus Linnaeus
*Ingvar Kamprad
*Pontius Malmberg

References

* [http://www.scb.se Statistics Sweden]

External links

* [http://www.almhult.se/ Älmhult Municipality] - Official site
* [http://www.almhult.com Älmhult.com]


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